Blair Altman DJ sets, graphics, bikes, and randomness one unscheduled post at a time.

On the 24th of March I'm doing a gig at Vallican Whole out in the Slocan valley. That of course meant that it was time for another party poster.

Unlike every other thing I design I actually knew what I wanted to do with this one before I started. The idea was for something relatively simple but like usual, I spent way more time on it than I should have. My concept for the poster revolved around the event name...

January 25th was my 25th Birthday this year and since I don't ever do anything for my birthday I decided that this year should be a little different.

Last year in January I told myself two things. The first was that my next birthday wasn't going to be as lame as my 24th was when I spent a week filming something I don't enjoy for 9 hours a day. The second was that within a year I would get a gig playing at one of the local bars. It seemed that I could check both off at once if I just got a gig playing on my birthday.

Back when I was in school the music program asked me a few times to do some stuff for them. This time I was asked to do the usual photos down in the studio on the green screen, since they seem to love the green screen for some reason.

I guess they were planning one of their year end shows and had put together a Beatles tribute band. They wanted to take the background from the original Abbey Road cover and replace the original band with the music students instead. Somehow I got suckered into doing the poster as well at the chaotic time that I was trying to finish my graduating projects.